Toyota Trucks stole Zappa's moustache

Has anyone seen the commercials where the truck drives down a ramp off a cliff, but stops at the last moment? The symbol for the Toyota Trucks is I think a hexagon, with a more industrialized Frank Zappa moustache. It makes me mad every time I see it.

 

Fuck Toyota. My neighbor/best friend died in one and I almost died in one. They're a bit lacking, on the safety/ingenuity side. European cars are the shit.

 

That was weird... his brother just called (I hadn't talked to him in a week or two) right when I was typing this.

 

i've got me an oldsmobile right now... i'll gladly take a toyota off your hands

 

I actually prefer an Oldsmobile, haha. The only good thing, to me, about a Toyota is their engine/transmission.

Of course, VWs have the best of both worlds, since their transmissions are contracted out of Japan. My engine was built in Wolfsburg... and my transmission in Aichi. And all the safety features you'd ever need. The only minus with Eurocars is that they have more common wire issues.

I just re-did the wiring harness on my Jetta and had to tinker with the airbags (there's five or six of them) a bit. The wire corroded to one of the airbags in the side of the headrest/sidecurtain...

 

a bravada? 15.9 miles to the gallon? and i have to drive 40 some odd miles to work and back on a daily basis?

i am hopefully buying a car this weekend, though. hooray

 

Oh, fuck that. I'm thinking pre-1990 Oldsmobiles. I had my grandma's old Oldsmobile 76 for awhile, after she died, but we gave it to my aunt when she came down here. She also had a '97 Toyota Camry... my dad uses it for commuting.

My jetta gets like 35 or more to the gallon, generally. The diesels get 45-50 or more, just as much or more than a damn prius. Even more on biodiesel, plus it's just veggie oil... if I ever get another car or if I ever decide I just want an oldass car to toy around with or restore, I'd probably get an old diesel mercedes convertible.

 

yeah, i want to find something older.... i have a connection in nascar now, too. the nascar thunderstock series, which begins in april and is a weekly saturday night thing at a track in a town called west salem, about 30 miles from here. i want to get into it... i'm a badass driver. i dont know shit about cars, but if i do this, which i will, i'll hire my dad as my main mechanic and pit crew guy. only requirement is an eight-cylinder rear-wheel drive car from the 80s...wouldn't that be sweet.

so thats what i'm looking for now

 

Dude, shut up. I didn't know such high MPG's existed.
Wow. I'm in awe

 

Damn, I'd like to get into that.


And uh... well, my pastor at my church does stock car racing and demolition derby, lmao. His nickname is the faster pastor. He's done it ever since he was in his teens and uses it to raise money for charities/fundraisers and stuff.

 

Yeah, that's why I'm so elitist about them. Only German cars have really gotten into the whole small turbodiesel thing. You figure, a 1.x-2.0 liter turbodisel is the equivelent to 2.0-3.0 liters or more, as far as engine size goes and has just as much power as a V6 or more if you have a good cold air intake and other little things like that. I'd go for a K&N or AEM intake... I have a K&N on that old truck I use for wood hauling/landscaping and an AEM on my Jetta.

I can't stand the whole asian/japanese car trend. They aren't that great, but I do like Subaru and maybe some of the new Mazdas. Mazda actually builds/designed the Ford Ranger, which is why they last so long. Chevy contracts small car engines through Isuzu.